St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-25
READY FOR THE SWITCH.
Thirty Teachers Graduate From
the ST. Paul Training School.

last evening when the thirty graduates,
teachers of the training school, Supt.
Taylor and Secretary Dreher, of the
board of education, filed onto the stage
at the high school hall. The hall was
nearly filled with friends of the ''Sweet
girls" The stage was handsomely dec
GRATED with pOtted and cut flowers. The
graduates, without an exception, wore
the conventional white, with corsage
bouquets of roses of different sizes.
after which the first essay of the even
ing, b. Miss Alice Perry, ON ''Kinder-
garten Methods in Public Schools" was
announced. The essayiSt said:
The kindergarten method is but
beginning OF an educational
scheme. Habits are to be formed early
in life, so the kindergarten teaches the
child ideas that are to be developed into
thought. The kindergarten emphasizes
the fact that knowledge should find
place in early education. The child
sees hundred phenomena about him
and he is impelled to find out something
about them" The essay treated of the
different methods of kindergarten teach
ings, and showed careful study of the
subject. The next essay was by Miss
Emma Gerger. subject physical Gull
ture." The essay was a carefully pre-
pared one, and was intended to show
that physical culture does not neceS-
Sarily make man an athlete
or acrobat. She said: Our manu-
factories and business inter
ests multiply at an unnecessary
expense OF physical exertion. The gym
nasiums at the leading college are not
patrOnized by over five per cent. of the
students. The child should develop a
strong, firm, well-knit body. Great ex-
strong, erect form more than the bust
ness of the mechanic" The orchestra
played Army Chaplain" after which
Miss Rose Carroll read her essay on
''Study the Mind" She said: 1.-THE
teacher works with the mind and there
fore she should understand the capabili-
ties Of each one. Every mind contains
with itself the necessary requisites for
acquiring and retaining knowledge. The
study OF the mind becomes more
necessary when one remembers that
the teacher is the moral
guide of the child. In order to
the teacher must study his taste. The
child should be taught to do whatever
is right because it is right" The next
eSsayist was Miss Adelaide McCaine.
She chose for her subject, ga Teachers
Duty to Herself" Her voice and style
of delivery were excellent and the
matter showed careful consideration of
a subject which all young teachers
should understand. She said the first
step in action is knowing what to do.
The wood builder needs tools and ma
terial with which to work. Surely the
mental builder needs the same. AS the
work progresses the tools must be
shaped, new tools added and provisions
made for addition. Apprenticeship
means to a teacher a training or normal
school.
After waltz from the "Gypsy Baron"
the last esSayist of the. evening, Miss
Lavinia Lamb, delivered her prod,ic-
ton. 1t was on the subject, Teaching
Profession" She spoke without man
uscript, and appeared perfectly at ease.
She opened her subject with definitions
of the three great professions, medi-
cine, law and theology. There is
another, that of teaching 1t is not so
much to learn what to teach as how to
teach it. There have been educators
who have been ideals of professional
teaching. The teacher profession is not
necessarily the most important. EN-
pireS are of little Importance when their
moral power is decayed. The profess
SionS must be united.
SUPERINTENDENT TAYLOR'S ADDRESS.
After selection by the orchestra,
Superintendent Taylor addressed the
graduates as follows:
''Young ladies, congratulate you
upon your success in being able to enlist
yourself in that noble army of
three hundred, which during the
next year is to march ON to conquer the
oft of =.
ficultieS for you to meet and obstacles
to overcome, but energy and persever-
ance will bring you out victorS. You
must not be disappointed if you meet
difficulties. There are pleasures before
you, and you must not be discouraged.
Teaching is profession, and enc of the
nOblest that can be entered into in any
community. Through these difficulties
and over these obstacles, success awaits
you in the future. There are those be-
hind you ready to help. Do not be
discouraged if fault is found, for
fault will be found in any profession.
As the representative of the honorable
board OF education l now present you
with your diplomas. The inonotonous
work of distributing the diplomas was
then gone through with and thirty more
$3.50 per year teachers were cast upon
cruel and exacting world. Those who
received diplomas were as follows:
JEANETTE II. Bliss, There's NJ. Bittrich.
Bessie A. Butler. Cora C. CareI, Anna NJ.
Campion, Anna III. Carter, Rose Carroll,
Sadie Dougherty. Emma G. Freeman, Mary
Gill, Emma L. Geiger, Ann S. Graham, Lydia
j. Graham, Bertha dc Haas, Mary C. Haw-
thorne, Carrie s. Krieger, Lavina Lamb, Caro-
Ign Mcguire, Adelaide McCaine, Helen Cora
Mcleod, Elizabeth Morrow, May A. Nolan.
Alice 1. Perry, Florence Perry. Myrrha
Scheffer, Kate A. Slye, Elizabeth Sliney,
katherine Sliney, Sophia n. Tener, Lou
Williams.